HI ,

let's first have a look at this

http://www.easymodrewrite.com/guide-syntax

ok , so i've my rewrite rules setup , everything is fine and dandy
but i'm want some extra which why i'm doing this in the first place.

I don't want the server send back any redirect header codes , i just want a straight response as if the browser had sent the final url after rewriting

basically , i want the browser to keep displaying let's say

domain.com/article/24 while the server does the internal redirection
and not redirect the broswer url to article/index.php?id=24

So what extras should i put there to achieve this ?

did i miss something or what?

Thank you

Ok , it seems that this thread has not got enough attention to answer this question of mine.

maybe because i didn't explain clearly what i want so here is the whole thing formulated in simpler words:

i have mod_rewrite in httpd server configured and is up and running
consider this:

which basically broadly matches 'old.html' and sent a redirect http header 3xx to browser , something a moved page..etc

now what i want , is that instead of externally redirecting the browser
to the new url , i want the server to internally do the mapping without
annoying the user agent with redirects and crap like that.

maybe because i wanna keep the backend url secret ?? who knows why ! LOL

so how am i supposed to accomplish this ?

Cheers

As I understand it, then the normal behaviour of a RewriteRule is exactly what you want, and you need to add the [R] flag to send the redirect header to the browser.

The example that you give, of rewriting old.html to new.html should, I think, behave exactly as you want. Is that the exact line you're using?